Mercurial > emacs
changeset 24908:075da7e5be80
(SHELL, MAKESHELL): Don't use /dos/command, it can
invoke an incompatible version of COMAMND.COM.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Thu, 01 Jul 1999 13:28:10 +0000 |
| parents | 3a8dabda4664 |
| children | 804955a16819 |
| files | msdos/mainmake.v2 |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/msdos/mainmake.v2 Thu Jul 01 08:42:26 1999 +0000 +++ b/msdos/mainmake.v2 Thu Jul 01 13:28:10 1999 +0000 @@ -32,8 +32,15 @@ # This gork is required for those who use a Unix-style shell, and # have SHELL in the environment pointing to it. Here we force # Make to use COMMAND.COM instead. This Makefile won't work otherwise. -SHELL=/dos/command -MAKESHELL=/dos/command +# (The /xyzzy directory is used to minimize the chance that someone +# actually has such a directory with an incompatible command.com. We +# used to have /dos there, but some Windows installations have an old +# version of DOS stashed in that directory, and command.com from there +# won't run on Windows, complaining about "Incorrect DOS version". +# Make will look up PATH for the shell executable, so the directory name +# is not important.) +SHELL=/xyzzy/command +MAKESHELL=/xyzzy/command # Generate a full pathname of the top-level installation directory top_srcdir := $(subst \,/,$(shell cd))